Dear all
my co-authors and I are happy to annouce the recent publication of a
paper summarizing a multidisciplinary approach to analyze the
gastro-intestinal tract content and walls. Currently procedures used to
obtain samples from the gastro-intestinal tract (GIT) and protocols used
to perform their respective analyses do not allow a multidisciplinary
approach of this system. In fact, the investigations applied on the GIT,
when performed singularly, could impair or limit the other analyses,
because the currently procedures do not consider the needs of other
disciplines. This means that the analyses to perform must be selected a
priori, sacrificing the collection of other types of data and leads to
the risk of losing important information, especially for wildlife
species. To solve this conflict, we implement and standardize a new
methodological approach to the GIT of marine mammals, which allow the
collection of samples for different disciplines at the same time,
performing the respective analyses, interpret and compare their results
in a multidisciplinary way. The compatibility of multiple analyses
allows the gaining of more information about the cause of death of
stranded marine mammals and to enhance the knowledge of their biology
and ecology.
The publication
Corazzola, G.; Baini, M.; Grattarola, C.; Panti, C.; Marcer, F.;
Garibaldi, F.; Berio, E.; Mancusi, C.; Galli, M.; Mazzariol, S.; Fossi,
M.C.; Centelleghe, C.; Casalone, C. Analysis of the Gastro-Intestinal
Tract of Marine Mammals: A Multidisciplinary Approach with a New
Multi-Sieves Tool. Animals 2021, 11, 1824.
https://doi.org/10.3390/ani11061824
can be found and downloaded at the following link
(https://www.mdpi.com/2076-2615/11/6/1824)
Best
Sandro Mazzariol
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Prof. Sandro Mazzariol, DVM, PhD
Dipartimento di Biomedicina Comparata e Alimentazione (BCA) - Università
degli Studi di Padova
Cetaceans strandings Emergency Response Team (CERT)
Centro Interuniversitario per la Ricerca sui CEtacei (CIRCE)
AGRIPOLIS - Ed. Museo
Viale dell'Università 16
35020 - Legnaro (PD)
tel.: +39 049 827 2963
fax: +39 049 827 2973
skype: smazzariol
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